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  • Why Aotearoa New Zealand needs a Public Health Communication Centre

    … and practitioners across NZ. It is a rebranded form of the long-running Public Health Expert Blog and continues its … concerned with fundamental public health drivers: Building long-term thinking into our policy making Tax justice for … from vested commercial interests leads to decades-long policy inaction and under-resourcing. Preventing and …
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  • Health co-benefits need to be adequately considered in the Climate Change Commission’s final advice

    … and improved diets that could potentially result in net long-term savings to society from responding to climate … benefits of avoiding major climate change impacts in the long-term (decades to centuries). Regardless, the objective …
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  • A National risks assessment should include pandemics and other global catastrophes

    … The Draft NZ National Security Long-term Insights Briefing (LTIB) has recently been produced … catastrophic pandemics). The Draft NZ National Security Long-term Insights Briefing (LTIB) has been produced by the … be particularly important, but the full spectrum of risks, long-term intervention options, and resource efficiency …
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  • The urgent need for a Covid-19 Action Plan for Schools in Aotearoa New Zealand

    … to both acute and longer-term risks of Covid-19, including long Covid in children and adults , with concerning … is now one of the top three occupational groups at risk of long Covid symptoms. 2 Teachers are reported to be leaving … lack of protective measures in schools and the impact of long Covid on their capacity to work. The above experiences …
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  • Social Marketing for Smokefree Aotearoa 2025: Reminding, Reinforcing, and Changing Social Norms

    … policies, thus modifying social norms, which also support long-term improvements in health outcomes. In this blog, we … acknowledged the need for robust public policy to support long-term, sustainable behaviour change. 2 This environmental …
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  • A new online calculator for estimating how much a society might spend on life-saving interventions

    … growth, and ageing), is unlikely to be sustainable in the long term. Given this picture, health sector policy-makers … perspective. But most countries (including NZ) are a long way from having such information available and most also … cohort, and the same future HALYs and costs (i.e., no long-term health sequelae of the life-threatening health …
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  • Protecting New Zealand children from the developing Omicron outbreak

    … impact; and taking a precautionary approach to potential long-term harms. Māori leadership at policy and community … children; and Taking a precautionary approach to potential long-term harms. The NZ Government has a duty of care under … level. Questions have also been raised about the long-term effects on children. There is emerging evidence of …
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  • Not forgetting the benefits to youth and non-smokers – an example from increases in tobacco taxes

    … may experience increased financial hardship – in the long-term they may still experience health benefits if the … financial benefit if they are more likely to quit in the long term. Smokers who adopt or increase their use of … e-cigarettes (harm-reduction benefits) and continue to use long term [14]. Large financial savings if become smokefree …
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  • What does recent biomarker literature say about the likely harm from e-cigarettes?

    … ways people vape) and there is no evidence yet about long-term effects of e-cigarette use on health outcomes, a … and it is difficult to interpret the results in terms of long-term disease risk. The study showing raised levels of … would be expected to decline. But if they stay vaping long-term – then they may still be exposed to some notable …
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  • Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?

    … is mixed, and there is substantial uncertainty about long-run cost-effectiveness given the typically short-term … don’t consider if the dietary changes are sustained in the long-term. In NZ, our own modelling work suggests that … value-for-money (actually all were cost-saving over the long-run allowing for future reduced disease rates), see the …
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